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Once long ago, a curse was put on my family by a great necromancer. Over six thousand years ago, my ancestor, the great Lord Ashdown, had everything that he could have ever wanted: wealth, a family that loved him, servants and guards willing to do as his every command. As he began to age, he looked in the mirror and realised he did not want to grow old and die. He wanted to be eternally young, that the life that he had was not enough. He spent years researching the dark arts trying to find the answer to eternal life and finally sought out the necromancer Arcanon Decayn. The necromancer refused to give him the answer to his question. Lord Ashdown’s greed made him furious and he had his guards torture Arcanon yet he grew no closer to finding the answer he sought.
Well we have ourselves some rather immediate fairy tale vibes emanating off of that one...but well considering things are in italics I assume that is the effect that we're going for here. It does seem like a pretty nominal tale there, we have ourselves a powerful individual that appears to have basically everything that they could want in life but they realize that perhaps they could end up dying someday and therefore seeks immortality and it looks like this person got a lot closer than most in that they found somebody who knows the answer to the whole mortality situation and is actively torturing said person to get the answer...definitely an intriguing tale here.
Arcanon eventually died in the cells of Lord Ashdown’s castle and with his last words he said, “I curse thee for what you have done. From this day forward, every hundred years on this date a boy of sixteen from your bloodline will die and become a revenant forced to walk the earth seeking revenge on the soul who did this to them, bringing mortal terror to the earth. On this day I curse thee....” He died, the last lines of the curse disappearing with him. Lord Ashdown searched the castle for his sixteen year old son only to find his dead body. The curse had already started. A week after the boy’s funeral, his tomb was found open and his coffin empty. The following day Lord Ashdown disappeared never to be seen again, his wealth inherited by his fourteen year old son.
Well that most certainly wasn't your average fairy tale as far as the actual ending goes, that is a very...cursed ending...[no pun intended]...but...well, it was quite a powerful tale that one...to see this person pushed to the very limit during torture until they actually succumb to said torture and end up dying...and well, they have the last laugh I suppose as they use a curse to condemn this family to a lifetime of suffering...with a truly horrible fate, probably with the intention that either the family will remain tortured forever or simply die out. Well, this is a very powerful start here.
Yeah, not the normal bedtime story parents tell their kids at night but as you might expect from a teenage boy, I never believed the story. I thought it was just a story to scare us: that was until it happened to me.
Well, so it was some sort of tale that was just a bedtime story...but well, it looks like perhaps it isn't exactly fiction after all...judging by that statement there...especially the whole part it happening to this poor kid here...well, definitely a very neat way of ending off this prologue right here...makes for quite the chilling conclusion that really makes you want to find out more. So overall, this was a really solid prologue that you've got right here and this seems like a story that I would read
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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